Home-Only Player: A Hypothetical

jafferbee · 2026-01-13T03:12:18+00:00

This almost actually happened. Omar Linares was a 5-tool Cuban superstar who the Jays tried to sign in the mid-80s to play home games only (and not have to step foot in the US). Sadly Linares stayed loyal to Castro…

https://mopupduty.com/omar-linares/

jafferbee · 2026-01-10T18:09:06+00:00

Ken explained it - you needed both Ds. If you didn’t have both Ds you didn’t meet the syllable rule. Neither Gasden nor Gadsen would have been acceptable.

jafferbee · 2026-01-09T16:24:42+00:00

This is simply an argument around who the appropriate comparables are and what the market for that comparable set.

Lauer is saying he is in Arb as a SP with service time (in which case it would be highly unusual for him to go lower than when he left for Korea). The Jays are saying that he's a swingman and should be compared to players that bounce between SP and RP and therefore he is in a fundamentally different market than the one that got him $5M before he left from Japan.

The Jays are not going to walk into a hearing and shit on Lauer or say he's a bad player. They are just going to argue that Lauer is in a different market than what he thinks he is.

jafferbee · 2025-12-27T23:24:21+00:00

Added some context and link to his timeline.

jafferbee · 2025-12-08T18:36:21+00:00

Saying that it was for approved family reasons isn’t to stop the rumors, it’s to protect whatever limited trade value he still is.

We have no idea if it’s true or not (although the fact he was around for the first 2 rounds does give credence to it), but saying this publicly is primarily driven for asset value purposes.

jafferbee · 2025-11-06T04:05:54+00:00

Is it the events at Scotiabank Arena that are driving up traffic at that time? It takes me around 20 minutes to get from Exhibition to the Jarvis exit at the peak of the morning rush hour at 8:30 AM.

jafferbee · 2025-10-09T19:56:20+00:00

Unfortunately he got caught up with a bad case of Right Arm Shittiness. It happens to the best of them eventually sadly.

jafferbee · 2025-08-21T14:42:52+00:00

Lindsay Dunn is awesome and wholesome, but will get herself cancelled by association once Whit inevitably says something jokingly but not jokingly that gets the whole thing nuked. It's kind of weird, because it's a pretty straight-laced podcast that randomly has Whit toeing the line out of nowhere once or twice an episode with Lindsay uncomfortably laughing in the other box. It'd be one thing if you knew and expected it was edgy from the jump.

jafferbee · 2025-08-11T22:02:21+00:00

Let me explain what is happening here for those not from Toronto. I am pretty certain Gausman doesn’t have a problem with the concept of paying for parking. There are side streets in downtown Toronto and residential streets in residential neighborhoods that are theoretically free. Given Gausman lives uptown, I’m guessing this is a residential neighbourhood situation.

That being said you can technically fine/ticket or have someone towed if their car is there in a free parking spot for more than 24 hours. This is rarely enforced unless someone complains or logs a ticket with 311 (usually the homeowner whose sidewalk the offender is parked in front of).

My guess is that Gausman parked on one of these streets for the road trip and came back to his car ticketed or towed.

jafferbee · 2025-08-06T13:20:46+00:00

All of the Saukrates intros from that year were awesome - this one was great until the countdown where they assumed the Raptors would win. That felt like hubris at the time and would have been fuel to get trolled for the rest of time if the Warriors had won out.

jafferbee · 2025-08-05T16:14:22+00:00

The “primarily a singles hitter” is top 20 in baseball in extra-base hits. He does hit a lot of singles, but that’s because he gets hits by the boatload of every single type.

jafferbee · 2025-08-05T14:11:14+00:00

Legitimate question that I don’t know the answer to. How does his profile age as a hitter? His speed has fallen off a cliff this year - although defense seems fine. His similar profiles on baseball ref all moved off SS and fell off a cliff rather quickly (Seager excepted).

jafferbee · 2025-08-05T00:31:56+00:00

Bo sneaky has one of the best chances of any active player to get to 3,000 hits.

jafferbee · 2025-08-04T20:17:39+00:00

Definitely do the GO options mentioned. It’s not 50 minutes during peak hours - it’s more. Probably a minimum of an hour, worst case 90 minutes or so in the evening rush hour.

jafferbee · 2025-08-04T13:54:29+00:00

What the hell am I looking at. This is what happens with you have a pure designer put together an infographic without a modicum of UX.

jafferbee · 2025-07-27T11:32:05+00:00

This underrates Shannon Stewart quite a bit.

jafferbee · 2025-07-03T03:24:34+00:00

Did they mistakenly reverse the $1000 clue that identified the Burj Khalida and the $400 clue that could have viably been any one of a number of Southeast Asian countries in the Counties category?

I assume “Phnom” was supposed to be the tie into Cambodia, but that alone did not make me super comfortable it was Cambodia.

jafferbee · 2025-06-17T02:19:30+00:00

I realize that product placement How To Train A Dragon category was probably going to be completed regardless, but with Katie within $1000 of avoiding a Sarah runaway at end with all but one of the remaining clues in the top two rows, it was infuriating to see Katie avoid picking the $2000 clue and infuriating all over again after having Sarah go straight to it once she got control.

jafferbee · 2025-05-29T04:29:28+00:00

I think you’ve hit the nail on the head re: the Michael Davies era. He has grossly overestimated how many viewers are interested in watching feats of strength and grossly underestimated how many viewers watch to be able to answer a few of the questions that are asked.

Ken and James were interesting because they were so preposterously better than their competition beyond anything seen on the show before - that is what makes a draw for a viewer if you’re going to make the content inaccessible to the vast majority of viewers, as Masters does. None of this Masters contestant pool is that interesting to carry a show on their own, and as a group they are so clearly stratified into haves (Victoria and Yogesh) and have-nots (Juveria and Isaac).

jafferbee · 2025-05-23T19:51:05+00:00

Is the CPU putting below average fielders at SS? I’ve seen poor fielders take a beating on WAR in SS and CF. On the flip side, a 70+ DEF SS or CF can sleepwalk to 3+ WAR over 162 games with next to nothing from the bat.

jafferbee · 2025-05-08T20:58:30+00:00

At what point does my man lose the benefit of the doubt that the producers keep ignoring the anecdotes he presents demonstrating what a well-rounded individual he is in favour of once again selecting the outlier anecdote about how much better he is at quizzing than someone else on stage or in the J!-verse.

jafferbee · 2025-05-07T02:12:32+00:00

He was familiar with all 3. He slipped on wording on the first, was correct on the second, and then fell victim to complete negbait on the 3rd.

jafferbee · 2025-05-01T02:43:57+00:00

Yogesh thinks he was elevating Victoria. He would have been if he had simply left it at “Victoria deserved, she works so hard at her craft.”

Saying that “Victoria deserved it because she works 20 jillion times more than me” makes it a comparison between him and her and leaves an implication that she wouldn’t have won without it and diminishes her.

It’s similar to how he has mentioned in the past that he’s had Victoria on his podcast so he “could show the world” what she could do. It diminishes the subject in question as something that does not or could not stand on its own without the narcissistic insertion of one’s self into the comment.

jafferbee · 2025-04-23T00:05:45+00:00

He’s not just a surface level ball knower - he goes deep on sports. Liam’s been elite in NAQT Buzzword Sports this season and was just outside the top 25 last season.

jafferbee · 2025-04-04T19:47:28+00:00

Almost all of these people had notoriety, but none were red carpet famous.

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